Re: New Member

Posted April 9, 2009 · April 9, 2009

Hi Kim,

My ortho did the neatest trick when I was there today. He took a very

flexible wire (maybe a long piece of garden wire or twist tie might work) made

it into a circle, hooked it with tape, then carefully fit it over my guy's head.

He marked the ears and nose place on the wire with marker, carefully took it

off, got the circle on paper, folded it in half at the nose, then held it up to

a bright light and cut around the biggest part. After he cut it out it was

really, really obvious just how asymetircal my guy's head was. I sure wish, I

had know this before I started repo. I would have recorded how bad his head

really got.

Annie

> > >

> > >> Hi Kim,

> > >> My son also has tort and plagio. We didn't get banded until 9 months -

> > >> similar pediatrician story. I'm not in your area, but I just wanted to

let

> > >> you know that we were also in your shoes. We tried repo, but it was so

> > >> difficult with the tort. My son's tort was not resolved by the time we

> > >> banded, but knew we needed to do it before it was too late. We still

went

> > >> to PT for the tort, as well as an Osteopath. We would take his band

off

> > >> to do the stretches. He was in his band for 5 months, plagio was down to

> > >> 2mm, so now we're just focusing on the tort. The tort has gotten so much

> > >> better because he started crawling, then walking. It's not too late to

> > >> band. We started at 8mm, and got good correction. Hope this helps.

> > >> Kim

> > >> Mommy to Jimmy

> > >> Starband grad 4/2/09

> > >> tort and plagio

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